I have just received your letter of the 17th, and am
replying at once. I replied to you over a week ago about the
trip to
Brussels,[1] sending the long letter to P. B. (since
it also included the plan for No. 4 of Zarya) with a request
to send it on to you immediately. If the letter has not been
lost, it is a scandal that he has delayed it! I am writing
to him immediately.

I support Alexei’s opinion that you must go. Krichevsky
can do us harm—and now that the decisive struggle is
beginning, we should keep an eye on him. We won’t be able
to get along with them.

I am sending you 230 marks: 80 marks=100 francs for
the International Bureau, and 150 marks for the trip. Will
that be enough?

Take a circular ticket (the period is 2 months) with a
break at Munich (if it’s imprudent to do so from Geneva,
order it in Zurich). At Zurich persuade P. B. to come too.
Then we shall all be together at the beginning of January,
and shall have done both with the programme (this is
important) and with No. 4 of Zarya, etc.

I am expecting Zarya any day now. I already sent P. B.
its contents in that letter.

Write a little report or a note for Iskra on the sessions
of the International Secretariat.

Notes

[1]
G. V. Plekhanov attended the I.S.B. conference in Brussels on
December 30, 1901 (Plekhanov and B. N. Krichevsky were
elected to the Bureau at the Paris Congress of the Second International
in 1900). Iskra No. 15 of January 15, 1902, carried Plekhanov’s
report on the conference, entitled “From Brussels. A Letter to
Iskra’s Editorial Board”.